Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
What most people don't know is that Rochus Misch, Hitler's private bodyguard in the bunker, who is portrayed in this film by Heinrich Schmieder, was alive at the time this movie was released. In fact, he is mentioned in the end credits as "living in Berlin".
Not only that, he was interviewed and asked what he thought about this movie, and he replied that it was mostly accurate, just that they screamed to much.
This man was raised in, and…
What was even the point? Almost everything is exactly, verbatim, identical to the 1994 original. Why make the same movie twice if you're not going to change a single thing? The first movie was lightning caught in a bottle and everything worked so well because every aspect of it, every part fot so well together. Change one essential thing (the animation) and the whole thing collapses. The "realistic" looking animals don't blend with the reat of the movie.
In the…
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
-Francois Fenelon
The question I asked myself at the end of this movie was "why?".
While the generals and highly positioned men were sitting in their palaces, enjoying good food, electricity and comfortable beds, millions of young men from neighbouring countries were in the dirty trenches suffering and slaughtering eachother in a war that even they had enthusiastically volonteered for. They all believed in a quick, glorious victory for their…